Middle TN Boy Scouts council to vote against openly gay members in Scouts

12:35 AM,
May 8, 2013

Written by

Adam Tamburlin
Gannett Tennessee

The Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America announced today it would not support proposed policy change that would open membership to young people who are openly gay.

The Executive Committee of the National Boy Scouts announced in April that they would submit the proposed change to the roughly 1,400 voting members of its National Council at a meeting in Texas the week of May 20.

The Scouts' current policy bars, "individuals who are open or avowed homosexuals or who engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the Boy Scouts of America." ...